PowerShell comes with a cmdlet named Get-PfxCertificate that you can use to load a certificate plus private key into memory. However, if the...
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Are themes supported in Aqua Data Studio
ADS would still benefit from a THEMES option.Response Thomas Conrad over 1 year ago Hi John, In addition, you can dynamically change the font size...
Fluidshell Source Control
Is there a suite of Fluidshell commands that might relate to source control - e.g., something similar to the git command line client? I guess...
Creating New Code Signing Test Certificates
PowerShell comes with a cmdlet named New-SelfSignedCertificate which can create all kinds of self-signed test certificates. However, it is not...
Get Volume IDs (Part 2)
In Windows 10 and better, you can use Get-Volume to get volume IDs and other information about your drives: PS> Get-Volume DriveLetter...
Get Volume IDs (Part 1)
You can query WMI to get a list of your drives volume IDs like so: Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_Volume | Select-Object -Property DriveLetter,...
How to schedule an automatic reverse-engineer from a database into a data model?
This blog post describes how you can run a macro to reverse engineer a database and call it from the Windows Task Scheduler. When you use ER/Studio...
Asking for Masked Input (Part 2)
Never ever use plain-text input for secrets and passwords – the text entered by the user may be logged and compromised. Always use a masked input....
Asking for Masked Input (Part 1)
Never ever use plain-text input for secrets and passwords – the text entered by the user may be logged and compromised. Always use a masked input....
Accessing Windows Credential Manager
If you need to access credentials (saved passwords) stored by the Windows Credential Manager, the “CredentialManager” module may be helpful for you....
Using HTML to create PDF Reports (Part 3)
HTML can be a simple way of formatting data for output reports. In this last part we illustrate how you convert the final HTML report to PDF...
Using HTML to create PDF Reports (Part 1)
HTML can be a simple way of formatting data for output reports. In this 3-part series, we first illustrate how you compose HTML reports, then show a...
Take Advantage of Your Profile
When PowerShell launches, it automatically looks for a special autostart script. It does not exist by default and is different for each PowerShell...
Beware of -match
The -match operator is frequently used in scripts however not everyone seems to understand how it really works. It can be a really dangerous filter...
Avoid Add-Member (Part 3)
In the previous tip we looked at a number of clever alternatives to avoid Add-Member when creating your own new objects. While using hash tables to...
Avoid Add-Member (Part 2)
In the previous tip we looked at creating simple data objects, and it became evident that instead of using Add-Member, you can cast a hash table to...
Avoid Add-Member (Part 1)
Often the cmdlet Add-Member is used to create simple objects like this: $user = New-Object -TypeName psobject | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty...
Business Architect Support
Is Business Architect currently still being maintained/upgraded, other than to make it compatible with the latest version of Team Server? In looking...
Important Keyboard Shortcuts
Two of the most important keyboard shortcuts in any PowerShell environment – whether console, ISE, or VSCode – are TAB and CTRL+SPACE. TAB triggers...
Using Sysinternals Console Tools via PowerShell (Part 4)
In our previous tips we showed how you can use PowerShell to download, unblock, unzip and then run the Sysinternals console tools from PowerShell....
Using Sysinternals Console Tools via PowerShell (Part 3)
In our previous tips we showed how you can use PowerShell to download, unblock, unzip and then run the Sysinternals console tools from PowerShell....
Improve your recovery for SQL Server backup
Not having a good recovery process One big part of your backup process needs to include the recovery procedures. You should have a rehearsed...
Using Sysinternals Console Tools via PowerShell (Part 2)
In our previous tip we used PowerShell to download and set up the Sysinternals suite of console commands. Here is what we did: $destinationZipPath =...
ER Diagram: Model varchar(max)
Since length is required for varchar and there is no varchar(max) type, how do you model varchar(max)? ADS 22.1.3 Response Thomas Conrad 4 months...